Last year I took a trip to Denver and while there I visited
The Breckenridge Brewery. Really good beer, but also good food. My buddy and I ordered the BBQ Chicken Wings and they blew our minds! Ever since I have been craving those smoked, BBQ wings, so today I tried my first attempt at smoking some wings.
I had heard that you can take frozen wings and throw them right on the smoker, so being the lazy guy I am, I decided to give it a whirl. I purchased a ginormous bag of wings from Sam's about a week ago. They have been sitting in my freezer just waiting to get cooked. Well, it can't get much simpler, I got the egg to around 250, threw some smoking wook on the coals, and using the indirect method I placed the rock solid, frozen wings directly on the grill ( actually I used one of those little cheap grill savers, but you get the idea.) I let the wings smoke for about 3 1/2 hours. I pulled the plate setter out and opened up the egg to get up to grilling temp then basted the wings in a Rasberry Chipolte sauce and put the wings back on to crisp up the skins. Then pretty much pulled them off and began shutting down the egg.
Well let me tell you. These definately gave me flashbacks to my Denver trip. They were good and smoky (but not over smoked), the rasberry chipolte gave them a little sweet and spicy kick, and with a beer, well...they were really good. I can't wait to "experiment" with wings again...perhaps tomorrow?
Oh, the beer...that's a Samuel Adams Summer Ale.
--Smokin!!!
The Alfster
